http://www.metaconverse.com Clive Sweeney's blog — waiting for a cool tagline Mon, 19 May 2008 18:50:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think of myself as a bicyclist. I almost always ride alone. I ride hard and feel good about it afterwards. On Saturday, I did 50 miles on my road bike—a good distance but not terribly special, or difficult. Except for one thing. This time I was riding with a friend ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/05/19/the-online-peleton/ Are you afraid? Sometimes you have to wonder if you can keep up. Other times you know very well that you can't. Every day—literally—we learn about or stumble across new twists in the online environment. New online communities, new video channels, new aggregators and interpreters, new personalities, new scams and ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/05/18/living-the-experiment/ You've probably read reviews like this. I just read 'Street Kings' comes up empty, by Craig D. Lindsey, Staff Writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. Here's how it begins: Whenever I know there's a Keanu Reeves movie coming, I can count on it being spectacularly, hysterically, almost hilariously bad. And ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/04/11/maybe-the-movie-is-bad-but/ I just read David Armano's post "Experience, Social, Word of Mouth. Is it All Just Advertising?" on the "Experience Matters" blog. Once again, an excellent post, but this time I was struck by one of the comments. David Cushman wrote: good customer exp, whether delivered by human or device, is all it ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/03/26/good-experience-is-not-a-new-idea/ In my previous post I wrote about information missing from a website, or at least very difficult to find. The information was absolutely crucial to the organization and to the users of the website. It was missing not so much because the information wasn't important, but because the website owners ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/03/12/hiding-from-actual-contact/ Everybody makes assumptions. But sometimes you'd think they'd know better. Of course, I might be the only person who isn't already sure of the answer, but what do you do if you want to confirm when your income tax return has to be filed? I'm a Canadian who has been living ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/03/04/when-is-tax-day/ I'm a Flash developer. I've been doing the work for several years and I'm not nearly as good as I should be. "Good enough" doesn't cut it, and "better than most" is hard to define and/or defend. When I say I'm not as good as I should be, I really ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/03/03/flaunt-your-weaknesses/ When you're still in the midst of it all, who's to say when a tipping point has been reached? Twenty years, or maybe fifty years from now, we'll know—but from this particular vantage point it seems we're finally reaching a mass awareness of global environmental issues. It's been a long time ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/02/20/green-green/ In so many ways, this is a beautiful, affecting, and probably very effective television ad. Before I say more, take a look. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rbNc7GzRSqM[/youtube] The story, visuals and music seduce the viewer, until the bittersweet ending delivers the payoff. The stork drops his head and the raindrop tears flow down the glass. How ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/02/18/the-disappointment-of-the-stork/ I started with 20 names—people whose books and sites had some influence on my own development as a Flash and website developer. Just over half of them were Flash people. Of the 20, how many would I find on Twitter? The results surprised me: 13 of the 20 are currently on Twitter. ... http://www.metaconverse.com/2008/02/15/a-twitter-experiment-2/